Primary Care Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Denbury; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Denbury is seeking a Registered Nurse to join their team, focusing on delivering high-quality care in the offender healthcare setting. This role includes responsibilities such as emergency response, long-term conditions management, and health promotion. The ideal candidate should have a Registered Nurse qualification and possess strong clinical skills. This position offers a structured progression pathway and the chance to make a real impact on patients’ lives.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering primary care services in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to work in a challenging environment, specifically in offender healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality primary care services for offenders.
• Perform reception screening and emergency response.
• Manage long-term conditions and engage in health promotion.

Skills

Clinical skills

Patient care

Emergency response

Health promotion

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our diverse, talented healthcare team to deliver care that is efficient and deeply centered on the patient.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being for those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services within an integrated healthcare model to provide effective, responsive care that improves well-being and supports better outcomes.

We strongly encourage applications from both newly qualified registered nurses (who will initially be offered a preceptorship) and experienced Band 5 nurses seeking a career in offender healthcare, with a structured progression pathway to support your development.

Important Sponsorship Information: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

As a registered nurse, you will provide high-quality primary care services and a range of specialist interventions for offenders. At HMP Channings Wood, we deliver a nurse-led integrated primary care service and operate a specialist clinical care model.

You will deliver high-quality clinical care within the Integrated Healthcare Service for the prison, demonstrating expert clinical skills and evidence-based nursing practice.

Our registered nurses carry out duties including:

1. Reception screening
2. Emergency response
3. Long-term conditions management
4. Planned care (e.g., clinics)
5. Enhanced assessment and diagnostic services
6. Health promotion activities

This position offers a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills, and a commitment to delivering high standards of care in a rewarding yet challenging environment.

Oxleas provides NHS healthcare services in community and secure settings, including community health care, mental health care, and services for people with learning disabilities. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centers, schools, and homes.

We operate over 125 sites across the South of England, including in London boroughs and hospital sites such as Queen Mary’s Hospital and Memorial Hospital. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in several regions, committed to providing excellent care and supporting our staff.

Our Purpose: To improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and families, guided by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name: Ann Woolway
Job title: Head of Healthcare
Email: [e-mail]